FUNDRAISER FOR ROSE LOWERY, CHOIR DIRECTOR AT ROSARY CHAPEL, TO HELP WITH MEDICAL EXPENSES
ROSE FELL IN MAY 2016 AND SUFFERED A LIFE ALTERING EVENT
CHILI AND SOUP DINNER
DONATION: $10

Friday, December 2, at 12:30 p.m., County Judge-Executive Bob Leeper will light the McCracken County Christmas Tree in the courthouse rotunda. Students from Lone Oak Intermediate School will provide holiday music. A reception will follow. The McCracken County Civic Beautification Board invites the public to attend.

Candlelight walk ending with a program at Washington Street Baptist Church in recognition of World AIDS Day. Sponsored by Heartland CARES, Inc.

Balloon release and short program marking World AIDS Day. Sponsored by Heartland CARES.

We are having a tree lighting ceremony on Thursday December 1st at 6pm to light our ‘purple’ Tree of Hope to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Association. We are selling hand decorated ornaments with a $25 donation or more. I have attached the flyer and would appreciate if you could help us get the word out so that we can send in a sizable donation for such a great cause! Thank you for your time and feel free to attend our first annual event

The Season of Honor: Caring for the Caregiver Support Group will meet on Monday, December 5, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. at First Baptist Paducah in the Fellowship Hall, Entry 5 across from Keiler Park. The topic will be “As You Think, So Are You.” The presenter will be Judith Ervin, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Jackson Purchase Medical Associates.

ORDER OF ADVENT WALK:
-St. Francis de Sales Catholic
-Grace Episcopal
-First Presbyterian
-Broadway United Methodist
-Washington Street Baptist (reception to follow at Washington Street Baptist)
All are invited to join this Advent celebration as we pray together in each of these five downtown Paducah churches, processing between them. There is limited bus space available, if needed. To take advantage of this, please park in the courthouse parking lot by 3:30pm.

The Paducah Tilghman High School Choral Department presents the Broadway musical Thoroughly Modern Millie, winner of six Tony Awards and named Best Musical of 2002. Step back in time to the Roaring Twenties and follow Millie as she moves from Kansas to New York City, determined to become a “modern woman,” complete with bobbed hair, raised hemlines, careers, and new rules on relationships. Come enjoy this Jazz-Age, tap-dancing musical directed by Matt Hinz and Al Knudsen and starring a cast of Tilghman students and a live professional orchestra at the Paducah Tilghman High School Auditorium. SHOWTIMES are Saturday, November 19 at 2:30 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, November 20 at 2:30 p.m. This is a great show for all generations of a family to attend together. Tickets are only $5, $10, and $15. Get your reserved seating online at www.showtix4u.com. Tickets also available at t

The topic for the November meeting is "How Do I Care for Myself, the Caregiver? Self-care is as crucial as providing care for our loved ones. Learn some warning signs of emotional overload and discuss techniques to "C.O.P.E." The presenter will be Cheryl Heavrin, M.A.Ed, LPCC.

Murray State’s Department of History will host this year’s “Roots 7” concert Tuesday, November 15th in MSU’s Lovett Auditorium, featuring Derek Hoke performing his original brand of Country, Blues and Swing and great bluegrass with the award winning Kenny & Amanda Smith Band. Admission is free, but canned goods for Need Line are requested.

The Paducah Tilghman High School Choral Department presents the Broadway musical Thoroughly Modern Millie, winner of six Tony Awards and named Best Musical of 2002. Step back in time to the Roaring Twenties and follow Millie as she moves from Kansas to New York City, determined to become a “modern woman,” complete with bobbed hair, raised hemlines, careers, and new rules on relationships. Come enjoy this Jazz-Age, tap-dancing musical directed by Matt Hinz and Al Knudsen and starring a cast of Tilghman students and a live professional orchestra at the Paducah Tilghman High School Auditorium. SHOWTIMES are Saturday, November 19 at 2:30 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, November 20 at 2:30 p.m. This is a great show for all generations of a family to attend together. Tickets are only $5, $10, and $15. Get your reserved seating online at www.showtix4u.com. Tickets also available at t

St. John Annual Holiday Craft Bazaar
Saturday, November 12th
10am-3pm
St. John Knights of Columbus Hall
6725 US Hwy 45 South Paducah, Ky
over 40 vendors of Holiday crafts, baked goods, jewelry, and more!

Come enjoy our annual bazaar with gift baskets, crafts, and homemade food items for sale.Brunch includes breakfast casserole, fruit, pastry and coffee.Brunch reservations are available to persons buying advance tickets.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased from P.E.O. members. Present your ticket to receive brunch. Shopping is open to the public. No ticket required.
P.E.O. is a philanthropic organization to promote education of women worldwide.

Secondhand Street Band, from New Orleans, plays traditional jazz and funk. Singer/Songwriter/Storyteller Ryan Brewer opens the show at 9pm. SHSB takes the stage at 10pm. You won't want to miss it!

Shop for the latest Fall Fashions and enjoy light refreshments while supporting a great cause! 10% of pre-tax sales will be donated to Cassidy's Cause.

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For most Americans, the war is like algebra or frog anatomy - something you have to study briefly in school but then never
have to think about again. Unlike World War II, with its unambiguous villains, epic battles and clear victory, World War I
is a hot mess. Countries and forgotten empires declared war on each other in no small part because a bunch of aristocrats
in funny clothes said they had to.

Everything about World War I - from the seemingly ridiculous fighting techniques (who hasn't watched a movie with trench warfare
and thought, "Man, that's a dumb way to die"?) to the clothes and music - seems anciently irrelevant.

But the truth is that almost no modern event can hold a candle to it. George Kennan observed that when studying the maladies
of the 20th century, "all the lines of inquiry lead back to World War I." A century from now, people might say the same thing
of the past two centuries.

Let's start with the obvious. The staggering loss of military lives: 650,000 Italians, 325,000 Turks, nearly a million from
the British empire, over a million from Austro-Hungarian lands, 1.4 million from France, 1.7 million Russians, 1.8 million
Germans and 116,516 Americans - not to mention 8.9 million civilian casualties worldwide. None of that counts the 50 million
fatalities resulting from the influenza pandemic largely unleashed by the war.

Without World War I, you don't get the second - a poignant irony given that the former was sold as the "war to end all wars."
The terms imposed on Germany, described as a "Carthaginian peace" by John Maynard Keynes, made another war virtually inevitable.
Much as Adolf Hitler found his life's mission while fighting in World War I, Benito Mussolini's fascism was a direct adaptation
of what he called "the socialism of the trenches."

Without the first war, the Bolsheviks almost surely would never have come to power in Russia. That led to the Soviet Union's
mass murder, Eastern Europe's enslavement, the Cold War and, of course, Vladimir Putin's career.

The Middle East's travails can be traced in no small part to the Ottoman Empire's dissolution at the end of WWI. Dividing
their spoils, the British and French drew most of the contours of the Arab world to their benefit. According to a surely false
legend, the line between Jordan and Saudi Arabia takes a crooked turn because someone bumped Winston Churchill's elbow while
he was drawing it. (Churchill himself blamed his errant pen on a liquid lunch.) What's not disputed is that the resulting
maps have fed countless conflicts and resentments ever since.

In the West, the war opened a Pandora's box, unleashing innumerable cultural and intellectual demons that we have decided
to make peace with rather than defeat.

And then there's America. Some good was hastened by the war, though it's hard to believe women's suffrage wasn't inevitable.
But it's also hard to ignore the harm, at least from a libertarian perspective.

"I believe it is no exaggeration," wrote sociologist Robert Nisbet, "to say that the West's first real experience with totalitarianism
- political absolutism extended into every possible area of culture and society, education, religion, industry, the arts,
local community and family included, with a kind of terror always waiting in the wings - came with the American war state
under Woodrow Wilson."

Wilson introduced domestic spying, censorship, violent political intimidation of opponents and economic statism into the American
DNA. Pro-Wilson intellectuals celebrated the "social possibilities of war," in the words of John Dewey. By that they meant
the ability to force Americans to, as Frederick Lewis Allen put it, "lay by our good-natured individualism and march in step."
The enduring notion that experts could plan the economy from Washington was largely born in Wilson's "war socialism."

David Adesnik, my colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, has an essay in The Weekly Standard arguing America had
no choice but to join World War I because Germany had resolved to fight us. Maybe so, but America joined that stupid and calamitous
war very late in the game and by doing so abetted the Carthaginian peace. The correctness of that choice is an academic question.
The consequences of it remain very much alive.